Resources for

Business and Industry

The last decade has seen a rapid increase in partnership programme that facilitates the
The Business and the demand for energy, water, other natural transition towards more sustainable industrial
resources, and in a broad range of consumer systems and contributes to the decoupling of
Industry Unit goods with increasingly shorter life cycles. economic development from increased natural
Resource Efficiency Our current economic system with business- resource use and environmental degradation.
and Cleaner Production as-usual production and consumption is on an
unsustainable path, exceeding the regenerative Available at: www.unido.org/fileadmin/user_
(RECP): media/Services/Environmental_Management/
reducing the material and assimilative capacities of our natural
and energy intensity of ecosystems. In partnership with business and Contacts/Contacts/TakingStock_16p_
industrial production industry, the United Nations Environment WebOptimized%20%282%29.pdf.
processes thereby Programme (U NEP) promotes informed
improving their decision-making and industrial practices Design for
competitiveness to encourage and facilitate environmental Sustainability: A
and reducing their sustainability. UNEP’s Division of Technology,
environmental impact.
Practical Approach for
Industry and Economics (DTIE) can help
Developing Economies
businesses to take action toward transitioning
Safer and Responsible to a green economy. A selection of UNEP A guidance outlining a
Production (SRP): DTIE resources are outlined in this brochure. practical methodology
mitigating environmental t o s h ow c o m p a n i e s ,
and health impacts of
and intermediaries who
emergencies involving How can you improve your work with them, how to
chemicals and promoting
safer production by resource efficiency? integrate sustainability
developing integrated
Design for into their products. It
national systems and provides the bridge necessary to help Small
industrial capacities.
Sustainability: A Step-
by-Step Approach and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), and
Corporate Environmental A global guide for the companies they partner with, execute
and Social Responsibility designers and industry Design for Sustainability (D4S) projects.
(CESR): promoting providing support on Available at: www.unep.fr/shared/publications/
the integration of three different sustainable pdf/DTIx0826xPA-D4SapproachEN.pdf.
sustainability criteria into product design
core business decision- approaches: redesign Promoting
making, building of existing products,
capacity through radical sustainable Resource Efficiency
business partnerships product innovation, (PRE) in Small
and networks to advance and new product and and Medium Sized
green and responsible service development. The guide includes Enterprises (SMEs)
approaches. online materials, additional design and The PRE-SME Resource
management tools, and worksheets.Available Kit builds upon
at: www.unep.fr/shared/publications/pdf/ experience from cleaner
WEBx0155xPA-DesignforSustainability.pdf. production activities and
can be used to develop
Taking Stock and
Moving Forward: and implement an
The UNIDO-UNEP integrated and continuous Resource Efficiency
National Cleaner SME Programme. It targets NCPCs and
Production Centers technical support institutions that promote
(NCPCs) Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production, but
This report highlights also provides a detailed step-by-step guide to the
NCPC activity outcomes production and technical managers of SMEs.
and presents the Joint
UNIDO-UNEP Pro-
gramme on Resource The Responsible Production Handbook
Efficient and Cleaner for Chemical Hazard Management in
Prodcution (RECP) in developing and transition Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
economies, which aims at scaling up and The handbook comprises three main elements:
widening RECP application. It is a global the Responsible Production Framework
July 2010
 Booklet, the Responsible India and South Africa.
Building A Resource Efficient Society and Green Economy Production Guidance Available at: www.unep.
and Toolkit, and the fr/shared/publications/
Responsible Production pdf/WEBx0120xPA-
Tr a i n i n g P a c k a g e . CarrotsSticks.pdf.
Together, these elements Carrots and Sticks -
provide the background Promoting Transparency
for implementing and Sustainability
Responsible Production, The second report in this
forming an integrated series provides an up-to-
approach for chemical date overview of mandatory
safety management and voluntary approaches
and chemical product stewardship along to sustainability reporting and assurance. Available
the value-chain. For more information on at: www.uneptie.org/scp/gri/pdf/Carrots_&_
UNEP’s Safer Production programmes, Sticks_II_Final_Report_May2010.pdf.
p l e a s e v i s i t : w w w. u n e p . f r / s c p / s p / .
Are You A Green
Energizing Cleaner Leader?
Production: A Guide A report produced
for Trainers jointly by UNEP
This guide targets D T I E a n d U N E P ’s
intermediaries working Wo r l d C o n s e r va t i o n
with companies and Monitoring Centre
training institutions (WCMC), this report
to synthesize the outlines business care for
wealth of information biodiversity and major
U N E P h a s g a t h e re d sector-related impacts.
from previous ener y The report looks at sectors
efficiency projects and such as mining, energy,
transforms it into a practical training package. agrifood, fisheries, construction, forestry,
Available at: www.unep.fr/shared/publications/ tourism, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, fashion,
pdf/DTIx0922xBA-EnergizingCP.pdf. and finance. These industries were chosen based
on the scale of their dependency and/or impact
Green Meeting Guide on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Available
2009: Roll Out the at: www.unep.fr/scp/business/publications/pdf/
Green Carpet for Business_and_biodiversity_16pp_PDF.pdf.
your Participants
A report designed to Buildings and Climate
guide organizers and Change: Summary for
hosts of small to medium- Decision-Makers
sized meetings to achieve This summary highlights
substantial cost savings, the potential of more
impress their participants efficient buildings in
and deliver a tangible addressing climate change.
sustainability message Globally, buildings are
by greening their meetings. The guide describes responsible for 40% of
greening considerations geared toward the annual energy consumption
planning phase of events and provides a simple and up to 30% of all energy-
check list to select concrete sustainable actions. related GHG emissions.
Available at: www.unep.fr/shared/publications/ This sector has the highest
pdf/DTIx1141xPA-GreenMeetingGuide.pdf. potential of all to deliver greenhouse gas emissions
cuts, at the least cost, using available and mature
technologies. Available at: www.unep.org/sbci/pdfs/
H
 ow can sustainability SBCI-BCCSummary.pdf. For more information
improve your bottom line? on UNEP’s Sustainable Buildings and Climate
Initiative, please visit: www.unep.org/sbci/.
Carrots and Sticks for Starters
This publication summarizes arguments in Fiduciary responsibility: Legal and practical
favor of the benefits of both voluntary and aspects of integrating environmental, social
mandatory reporting approaches. It suggests and governance issues into institutional
key considerations for public and private investment
sector decision-makers in addressing different This report provides a legal roadmap for
regulatory approaches and possible policy fiduciaries looking for concrete steps to put
mixes. The report provides a listing of reporting responsible investment into practice.The report
and related standards in OECD countries, as focuses on how to integrate environmental,
well as the emerging market economies of Brazil,
July 2010
 social and governance within the context of a Green Economy.

Additional UNEP DTIE Resources

issues into investment
mandates and contracts. Sustainable Tourism
Av a i l a b l e a t : w w w. Practical Guides
unepfi.org/fileadmin/ Su s t a i n a b l e t o u r i s m
documents/fiduciaryII. guidelines and
pdf. For more information management practices
o n U N E P ’s Fi n a n c e are applicable to all
Initiative and its work on forms of tourism in all
sustainable finance, please types of destinations,
visit: www.unepfi.org. including polar, desert,
and mountainous
The global state of regions. UNEP assists
sustainable insurance trade associations,
A publication exploring business development institutions, corporations
the relationship between and entrepreneurs, in both mass and niche
environmental, social and tourism segments, to incorporate sustainability
governance (ESG) factors as a core value. For more information on
and the insurance industry. UNEP Sustainable Tourism publications, please
The report is based on a visit: www.unep.fr/scp/tourism/publications/.
global survey covering a
wide spectrum of ESG Want to be a better corporate
factors as they relate to
the insurance business,
citizen?
including climate change, biodiversity loss & Translating ESG into
ecosystem degradation, water management, sustainable business
pollution, financial inclusion, human value: Key insights
rights, and emerging health risks. Available for companies and
at: www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/documents/ investors
global-state-of-sustainable-insurance_01.pdf This publication distills
key insights from a series of
The materiality of global workshops between
climate change: How companies, investors
finance copes with the and stakeholders about
ticking clock corporate environmental,
The report provides a social and governance
comprehensive review (ESG) performance and company valuation. The
of key financial analyst report outlines practical steps on how corporate
and academic research ESG performance can be better communicated
on climate change and and serves as a tool to advance the integration
expert commentary in of ESG factors into corporate investment and
order to accelerate the decision-making. Available at: www.unepfi.
integration of climate org/fileadmin/documents/translatingESG.pdf.
change risks and opportunities into financial
analysis and practice. Available at: www.unepfi. Life Cycle Management
org/fileadmin/documents/materiality3.pdf. - How Business uses it
to decrease footprint,
Global Trends in create opportunities
Sustainable Energy and make value chains
Investment: Analysis more sustainable
of Trends and Issues This guide can be used
in the Financing by in-house exper ts,
of Renewable managers, or company
Energy and Energy suppliers to learn how
Efficiency to apply life cycle
The latest edition in a management practices
series of publications, throughout the value
this report builds on the chain. This practical guide incorporates eight
approach used for earlier business case studies covering supply side,
releases, prepared by production line, warehouse issues, as well as other
UNEP and Bloomberg business cases. Available at: http://www.unep.
New Energy Finance, aggregating the transaction fr/shared/publications/pdf/DTIx1208xPA-
data from 15,000 organisations into an overview LifeCycleApproach-Howbusinessusesit.pdf.
of the global capital flows in the sector. The For more information on UNEP Life Cycle
2010 report, to be released this Fall, adds a and Resource Mangement programmes,
special focus section on Sustainable Energy please visit: www.unep.fr/scp/lifecycle/.
July 2010
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Life Cycle Management: Climate Friendly

A Business Guide to Buildings and Offices:
Sustainability A Practical Guide.
This guide puts life cycle A breakdown of greenhouse
thinking into a business gas (GHG) emissions
context, covering sustainable revealed that about 40%
and life cycle thinking based of emissions come from
on the triple bottom line, operating buildings and
life cycle management, offices. This guide focuses on
and implementation GHG emissions reduction
using the “plan, do, check opportunities from existing
and act” approach. The offices and buildings to
guide includes examples promote energy efficiency and conservation,
from developing countries and SMEs. Available providing practical advice to identify and assess
at: www.unep.fr/shared/publications/pdf/ GHG reduction opportunities. Av a i l a b l e a t :
DTIx0889xPA-LifeCycleManagement.pdf. www.unep.fr/shared/publications/pdf/
DTIx1278xPA-Climate%20Friendly%20
Guidelines for Social Buildings%20and%20Offices.pdf.
Life Cycle Assessment
of Products Towards Sustainable
The publication presents the Production and Use of
Social and socio-economic Resources: Assessing
Life Cycle Assessment Biofuels
(S-LCA) provides methods to This report provides a
assess and report product life robust assessment of the
cycle impacts and benefits, key problems of production
from the extraction of the and use of biomass for
natural resources to the energy purposes, as well
final disposal. The report as options for more
provides a technical framework for stakeholders to efficient and sustainable
achieve sustainable practices through product production and use of
life cycle assessment of goods and services. biomass. The report takes
Available at: www.unep.fr/shared/publications/ a global perspective, recognizing regional and
pdf/DTIx1164xPA-guidelines_sLCA.pdf. local differences. Available at: www.unep.fr/scp/
rpanel/pdf/Assessing_Biofuels_Full_Report.pdf.
Clean Energy,
Entrepreneurs and Role of supply chains
Sustainable Development in addressing the global
This initiative is led by seafood crisis
U N E P ’s Ru ra l En e rg y This report provides
Enterprise Development guidance to stakeholders
(REED) programme. in the fisheries sector
This initiative supports to address challenges
the development of local- contributing to the
level renewable enterprises global seafood crisis, and
in Africa, Brazil, China, promotes the need for a
and India, from the multifaceted approach
development of business plans to seed capital. to enhance sustainability
REED investments are placed in small and mid- within the sector. It highlights the importance
size enterprises (SMEs) that deal in clean energy of certification schemes, business to business
products and services, a sector generally considered relations, responsible investments and private/
too risky to attract conventional sources of finance. public partnerships in collective action within
Available at: www.unep.fr/energy/activities/reed/. supply chains. Available at: www.unep.ch/etb/
publications/Fish%20Supply%20Chains/
UNEP%20fish%20supply%20chains%20
report.pdf.